Bill Maher has criticized the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, saying the incident only serves as political fuel to transform Donald Trump into ‘president martyr.’

During Friday’s episode of The Real Time, Maher took aim at the divisive raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home this week, where authorities claim the former president held onto a trove of classified documents after leaving office.

Although Maher initially poked fun at the incident, he warned Democrats that the raid has only strengthened the chances of a successful Trump 2024 presidential campaign.

‘His fortune was finally falling. The Big Lie was finally losing momentum,’ Maher said, referencing Trump’s unproven claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

‘DeSantis was beating him in the polls, you know who hates this more than anybody? DeSantis,’ Maher said of the popular GOP Florida governor. ‘Like ‘I had this in the bag and now I got to run against President Martyr.”‘